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Home Town Hero (EASTwix)

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'African In New York' chronicles the colorful immigrant life in NYC from an African perspective. From the Bootleggers on Canal street to the Dollar cab drivers to the Restaurants Uptown, everybody gets a shout out over this banging Blitz production complete with live guitars and signature horns.
Taken from 'The Warm Up EP' dropping August 2013. 

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Produced by Blitz the Ambassador. 
Bass: Alexis Hountondji 
Guitar: Raja Kassis 
Trumpet: Jonathan Powell 
Sax: Ezra Brown 
Trombone: Ron Prokopez 
Percussion: Shaun Kelly 
Additional Vocals: Amma Whatt 

Engineers: 
Recorded/Mixed by Jim Bertini at Galaxy Smith Studios, Brooklyn NY. 
Additional Engineering: Chris 'Optiks' Jones + Cedric Moreau 

African In New York

NYC producer Sweater Beats is our current obsession. Having already earned respect for lo-fi bootlegs of Ciara's I'm Out and Mariah Carey's Touch My Body, the young gun has even dropped a banging single on Bondax's Justus label. 

For his debut EP, the king of "making beats that make your booty bounce" has ditched the samples in favour of vocalists with a vibe. Ahead of the game, treat yourself to this exclusive full length version of Do It For Me, the first track from his That Feel EP, due to drop tomorrow via Symbols Recordings. Let this track tickle your musical tastebuds as you count down the hours!

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Exclusive: Sweater Beats - Do It For Me ft. Erin Marshall

"As with Danny, House Shoes was my introduction to Quelle. In the same Barham apartment where he introduced me to Danny, Shoes let me hold two CD-R’s over Christmas 2007. The two jewel cases had drawn-on paper sleeves, one of them read Blue Mondays and the other was personalized to Shoes. I was floored. This guy sounded like nobody else. He could do straightforward rappity-rap, introspective and emotional joints and apparently made beats too. 

Life kept moving and one day I got word Quelle had moved to Oakland, about two hours away from where I lived at the time. I reached out and it was like reconnecting with an old friend from high school. We did hoodrat things together on both sides of the Bay Bridge and once in a while he’d play me some rap music. 

I knew I wanted Quelle to be involved with this project and it didn’t take much convincing to get him on board but it did take a minute to settle on the right song. Initially I was going with a lo-fi joint called “Sugar Honey Iced Tea,” which to date it’s still one of my favorite pieces of music Quelle has ever produced. Unfortunately Quelle had an accident in Chicago, where he lived when he cut the track, which lead to the loss of much music, including the track I was hoping to secure. 

We were about to abandon the idea just as Quelle discovered Knxwledge and Dibia$e and began to cut records with them. some of those songs would end up on the first volume of 2Dirt4TV but that was just an aperitif, Quelle actually finished the better part of an LP helmed pretty much entirely by Knx and Dibi. Unfortunately, a series of derailments and delays has kept that album from seeing the light of day but I managed to get Dibia$e and Quelle’s consent to use “Quantize” for this project. I’m very happy I waited because I consider it to be one of the best tracks Quelle’s recorded."

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QUELLE CHRIS & DIBIA$E - QUANTIZE

My mix of Flume's "Stay Close" with Notorious B.I.G. Enjoy.

Biggie Smalls - Big Poppa ft. Flume (VÄRT Mix)

Here's the second bootleg from our 90s mix. Everything you hear in this one is from 1996. This may or may not be the final mashup we ever do, so lets all turn a blind eye just this one last time. To all you brow-raisers, keep that bushy little caterpillar above your right eyeball nice and low. In the spirit of the 90s (and even in the spirit of some classic Soulwax), here's another bootleg to add some nostalgia to your next hip hop soiree.

We weren't very old in '96, but we were certainly listening to to enough music to know what we enjoyed. Even to this day, Jamiroquai remains and inspiration to our productions. Look no further than Foreign Language to catch a few glimpses of Cosmic Girl. The 90s mix was inevitably going to be hip hop, but we wanted to somehow sneak in a few other songs that were instrumental to shaping the decade and our tastes. It worked out as one of the most fortunate coincidences that Hypnotize and Virtual Insanity were in key together. And we know how naff it can be to throw a Biggy acapella over anything, but in tribute to that particular year (and even decade), we had to pay respect to one of the best in the game.

As a fun side note, the drums are taken from The Fugees - Killing Me Softly (also from 1996). This bootleg is so jam-packed with 1996'ness, it's one Slap-band away from turning into a Troll Doll.

Tracks:

Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Notorious BIG - Hypnotize
The Fugees - Killing Me Softly (drums)


Home Town Hero (EASTwix)

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